Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both legal literature and the documentary evidence attest the use of what can be called trust clauses , as well as the practice of using for a single disposition the wording of both legacy and trust . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Reading Council were lashing together a municipal PR exercise , using as a dodgy pretext the 400th anniversary of the destruction of the local abbey by Henry VIII . |
| 3 | Their generosity was appreciated being so willing to give some time explaining to a fellow enthusiast the intricacies of steaming a locomotive for the first time and the difficulties which had been experienced in the rebuilding process . |
| 4 | Although I was walking at a normal pace the impact stunned me . |
| 5 | Utilising at a local level the dynamic model of the building process developed at macro level by the Building and Civil Engineering Economic Development Council ( see ‘ How Flexible is Construction : a Study of Resources and Participants in the Construction Process ’ NEDC HMSO 1978 ) the research is intended to provide a detailed profile of the construction industry into the counties of West Glamorgan and Dyfed . |
| 6 | Pippa Raudsepp , residential mortgage manager with independent financial advisers London & Country Mortgages , said : ‘ For people looking for a new mortgage the rates are quite good . |
| 7 | This factor has exacerbated the already extremely difficult problem of translating into a screened image the sense of the photograph 's continuous tone . " |
| 8 | By living in a private house the student can be independent while having the opportunity to meet British people and to live in a British environment . |
| 9 | They tried to imagine him acting in a comic manner the part of a man who had murdered three wives in a bath . |
| 10 | It is hoped that the professor will play a leading part in creating and maintaining contacts with other departments of Classical Art and Archaeology both in the UK and abroad ; in organising visits to Oxford by overseas scholars ; in forwarding attempts to maintain and revive classical teaching in schools and universities ; and in communicating to a wider public the results and importance of Classical Archaeology . |
| 11 | According to an old story the Devil , intending to win the souls of the Basques , tried to learn their language , but after seven years of unremitting study had mastered only three words . |
| 12 | ‘ If you think I 'm standing waiting for a charging animal the size of a tank to reach me … how on earth do you grab its nose before it tramples you into the turf ? |
| 13 | As we 're gon na be commemorating and celebrating in a few moments the sacrifice to the very point of giving his own life . |
| 14 | The Glass-Steagall Act in the US , separating to a large extent the banking and securities business , is a good example of the difficulties inherent in transposing one set of regulatory values to another jurisdiction , in particular the UK , where no such prohibitions exist . |
| 15 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 16 | Owing to a circular symmetry the electric field will have only a radical component , independent of the azimuth angle . |
| 17 | The storm lasted five days , and to ride over Orkney after that was like riding through a great field the day after beggars had left it . |
| 18 | Hence the design of the Philadelphia research acknowledges the problem of reconciling within a unitary study the need for both depth and breadth . |
| 19 | However , the form of section 2(2) means that with regard to liability for animals not belonging to a dangerous species the position will be fundamentally the same as at common law , since the damage must be of a kind made likely by the characteristics known to the keeper . |
| 20 | And within a week of switching to a macrobiotic diet the pains had eased . |
| 21 | After moving to a staffed house the person received much higher levels of assistance from staff as well as higher levels of other contact . |
| 22 | After all he 's put the money in to pay pensions and the beneficiaries ought to have a strong hand in saying how that money is used , so we see half the trustees coming from the employer , the other half from the members of the pension fund , and we 've got a pension fund with the very heavy weighting of er pensioners and not so many employees and we would like to see the remaining seats er half the trustees elected , partly from the current employees , partly from the deferred pensioners and partly from the pensioners and reflecting in a broad way the numbers in each of those categories . |
| 23 | Populist movements demand the dictatorship of the majority , or the plurality , or the chosen ones , threatening as a logical terminus the establishment of a one-party state . |
| 24 | This is a lovely sheet of water amongst trees , having as a powerful background the massive build-up of ridges leading up to the summit of Mam Sodhail , a major Munro 3862 feet high . |
| 25 | This instituted a partnership between central and local government with both having as a prime objective the promotion of the education service . |
| 26 | Demonstrating in a tangible way the ‘ anxiety of influence ’ , in Robbe-Grillet 's Le Miroir qui revient ( 1985 ) and Claude Simon 's Discours de Stockholm ( 1986 ) , Sartre is castigated for having failed to follow through the innovative La Nausée ( 1938 ) by writing Les Chemins de la Liberté ( 1945 — 49 ) , which seemed unambiguously political in conception and , as a consequence , axiomatically non-modernist . |
| 27 | Travelling in a clockwise direction the route proceeds from Cat Nab , Saltburn along part of the Cleveland Way and along the cliff edge down to the beach at Cattersty Sands . |
| 28 | The Lieutenant had once leapt fully clothed into a river , demonstrating to a casual enquirer the purpose of a Royal Engineer 's lifejacket as he continued building a bridge while swimming fully armed among the pontoons . |
| 29 | Finally , in location , size and amenities , the private builder ( including to a large degree the housing association ) necessarily builds to suit his customers and thus provides an index of demand . |
| 30 | The PVO increased its show of strength , choosing as a special focus the little town of Tantabin , 40 miles from Rangoon , where the first BNA action against the Japanese had been staged in 1945 . |